I was replying to a post on FB in a drumming group and related how I view the process of developing one's playing.

This is how I see the learning curve: If you listen to little babies try to talk they all babble and say nonsensical little murmurs. The same should be with the drums; yes, definitely spend time quantizing to Quarters, Eights, Sixteenths, etc....but also set aside a little "exploration time" in that your hands just wander and do stuff that they may want to do; some of my...

My buddy Armando Marcos Cepeda did this video for a class project. Armando is an awesome bass player who was the last bassist to play with Ike Turner. He and I never did any gigs together with Ike but still we are connected by that heavy cord, LOL!

Chris Carpenter, songwriter extraordinaire, David Ybarra my longtime bassist companion in many iterations of bands and myself have embarked upon a very cool little songwritry sorta thing. Chris has these awesome tunes and he and I started to fuse drums/piano together. Along came David and the trio "Carpenter" was borne. Click Read more for the videos. They're awesome.